Dr Magdalena Zych
Honorary Senior Reseach Fellow
School of Mathematics and Physics
Parnell Building (07), Room 308
Teaching and learning
Dr Zych teaches 1st and 4th year physics and also 2nd year philosophy of modern physics.
Book
Zych, Magdalena (2017). Quantum systems under gravitational time dilation. Cham, Switzerland: Springer International Publishing. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-53192-2
Journal Articles
Dębski, Kacper, Zych, Magdalena, Costa, Fabio and Dragan, Andrzej (2023). Indefinite temporal order without gravity. Physical Review A, 108 (6) 062204. doi: 10.1103/physreva.108.062204
Dunajski, Maciej, Banks, Tom, Mathur, Samir D., Mehta, Mathur, Hod, Shahar, Lu, Neil, Scott, Susan M., Wette, Karl, Adekugbe-Joseph, Akindele, Adlam, Emily, Agrawal, Shraddha, Ali, Ahmed Farag, Inan, Nader, Alonso-Serrano, Ana, Liska, Merek, Ananth, Sudarshan, Majumdar, Sucheta, Arrechea, Julio, Barcelo, Carlos, Bockholt, Tjarda C. N., Zwart, Simon F. Portegics, Heggie, Douglas C., Boos, Jens, Brahma, Suddasattwa, Nagarajan, Abhinove, Davies, John Bruce, de Lange, L. H. A., Faizal, Mir, Barber, Irving K. ... Yahalom, Asher (2023). Abstracts of Award Winning and Honorable Mention Essays for 2023 Abstracts. International Journal of Modern Physics D ARTN 2302003. doi: 10.1142/S0218271823020030
Foo, Joshua, Mann, Robert B. and Zych, Magdalena (2023). Signatures of discretization in quantum black hole spectra. International Journal of Modern Physics D, 32 (14) 2342015. doi: 10.1142/s0218271823420154
Gale, Evan P. G. and Zych, Magdalena (2023). Relativistic Unruh-DeWitt detectors with quantized center of mass. Physical Review D, 107 (5) 056023, 1-18. doi: 10.1103/physrevd.107.056023
Foo, Joshua, Arabaci, Cemile Senem, Zych, Magdalena and Mann, Robert B. (2023). Quantum superpositions of Minkowski spacetime. Physical Review D, 107 (4) 045014, 1-15. doi: 10.1103/physrevd.107.045014
Tobar, Germain, Haine, Simon, Costa, Fabio and Zych, Magdalena (2022). Mass-energy equivalence in gravitationally bound quantum states of the neutron. Physical Review A, 106 (5) 052801, 1-11. doi: 10.1103/physreva.106.052801
Foo, Joshua, Arabaci, Cemile Senem, Zych, Magdalena and Mann, Robert B. (2022). Quantum signatures of black hole mass superpositions. Physical Review Letters, 129 (18) 181301, 1-7. doi: 10.1103/physrevlett.129.181301
Foo, Joshua, Mann, Robert B. and Zych, Magdalena (2022). Schrodinger's black hole cat. International Journal of Modern Physics D, 31 (14) 2242016, 1-10. doi: 10.1142/s0218271822420160
Wood, Carolyn E. and Zych, Magdalena (2022). Quantized mass-energy effects in an Unruh-DeWitt detector. Physical Review D, 106 (2) 025012, 1-11. doi: 10.1103/physrevd.106.025012
Foo, Joshua, Onoe, Sho, Zych, Magdalena and Ralph, Timothy C. (2022). Telefilters, telemirrors, and causality. Physical Review A, 105 (3) 033711. doi: 10.1103/physreva.105.033711
Rubino, Giulia, Rozema, Lee A., Massa, Francesco, Araújo, Mateus, Zych, Magdalena, Brukner, Časlav and Walther, Philip (2022). Experimental entanglement of temporal order. Quantum, 6 621, 1-29. doi: 10.22331/Q-2022-01-11-621
Foo, Joshua, Onoe, Sho, Mann, Robert B. and Zych, Magdalena (2021). Thermality, causality, and the quantum-controlled Unruh–deWitt detector. Physical Review Research, 3 (4) 043056. doi: 10.1103/physrevresearch.3.043056
Verma, Harshit, Zych, Magdalena and Costa, Fabio (2021). Effect of environment on the interferometry of clocks. Quantum, 5 525, 1-21. doi: 10.22331/q-2021-08-17-525
Foo, Joshua, Mann, Robert B and Zych, Magdalena Anna (2021). Schrödinger's cat for de Sitter spacetime. Classical and Quantum Gravity, 38 (11) 115010, 1-30. doi: 10.1088/1361-6382/abf1c4
Foo, Joshua, Mann, Robert B. and Zych, Magdalena (2021). Entanglement amplification between superposed detectors in flat and curved spacetimes. Physical Review D, 103 (6) 065013, 065013-1-065013-19. doi: 10.1103/physrevd.103.065013
Wood, Carolyn E. and Zych, Magdalena (2021). Composite particles with minimum uncertainty in spacetime. Physical Review Research, 3 (1) 013049. doi: 10.1103/physrevresearch.3.013049
Foo, Joshua, Onoe, Sho and Zych, Magdalena (2020). Unruh-deWitt detectors in quantum superpositions of trajectories. Physical Review D, 102 (8) 085013, 1-15. doi: 10.1103/physrevd.102.085013
Forstner, Stefan, Zych, Magdalena, Basiri-Esfahani, Sahar, Khosla, Kiran E. and Bowen, Warwick P. (2020). Nanomechanical test of quantum linearity. Optica, 7 (10), 1427-1434. doi: 10.1364/optica.391671
Henderson, Laura J., Belenchia, Alessio, Castro-Ruiz, Esteban, Budroni, Costantino, Zych, Magdalena, Brukner, Časlav and Mann, Robert B. (2020). Quantum temporal superposition: the case of quantum field theory. Physical Review Letters, 125 (13) 131602, 131602. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.125.131602
Foo, Joshua, Onoe, Sho, Zych, Magdalena Anna and Ralph, Timothy C. (2020). Generating multi-partite entanglement from the quantum vacuum with a finite-lifetime mirror. New Journal of Physics, 22 (8) 083075, 083075. doi: 10.1088/1367-2630/aba1b2
Loriani, Sina, Friedrich, Alexander, Ufrecht, Christian, Di Pumpo, Fabio, Kleinert, Stephan, Abend, Sven, Gaaloul, Naceur, Meiners, Christian, Schubert, Christian, Tell, Dorothee, Wodey, Étienne, Zych, Magdalena, Ertmer, Wolfgang, Roura, Albert, Schlippert, Dennis, Schleich, Wolfgang P., Rasel, Ernst M. and Giese, Enno (2019). Interference of clocks: A quantum twin paradox. Science Advances, 5 (10) eaax8966, eaax8966. doi: 10.1126/sciadv.aax8966
Baumeler, Ämin, Costa, Fabio, Ralph, Timothy C., Wolf, Stefan and Zych, Magdalena Anna (2019). Reversible time travel with freedom of choice. Classical and Quantum Gravity, 36 (22) 224002, 224002. doi: 10.1088/1361-6382/ab4973
Zych, Magdalena, Costa, Fabio, Pikovski, Igor and Brukner, Časlav (2019). Bell’s theorem for temporal order. Nature Communications, 10 (1) 3772, 3772. doi: 10.1038/s41467-019-11579-x
Zych, Magdalena, Rudnicki, Lukasz and Pikovski, Igor (2019). Gravitational mass of composite systems. Physical Review D, 99 (10) 104029. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.99.104029
Zych, Magdalena and Brukner, Časlav (2018). Quantum formulation of the Einstein equivalence principle. Nature Physics, 14 (10), 1027-1031. doi: 10.1038/s41567-018-0197-6
Altamirano, Natacha, Corona-Ugalde, Paulina, Mann, Robert and Zych, Magdalena Anna (2018). Gravity is not a pairwise local classical channel. Classical and Quantum Gravity, 35 (14) 145005, 145005. doi: 10.1088/1361-6382/aac72f
Rosi, G., D'Amico, G., Cacciapuoti, L., Sorrentino, F., Prevedelli, M., Zych, M., Brukner, C. and Tino, G. M. (2017). Quantum test of the equivalence principle for atoms in coherent superposition of internal energy states. Nature Communications, 8 (1) 15529, 15529. doi: 10.1038/ncomms15529
Pikovski, Igor, Zych, Magdalena, Costa, Fabio and Brukner, Časlav (2017). Time dilation in quantum systems and decoherence. New Journal of Physics, 19 (2) 025011, 025011. doi: 10.1088/1367-2630/aa5d92
Altamirano, Natacha, Corona-Ugalde, Paulina, Mann, Robert B. and Zych, Magdalena (2017). Unitarity, feedback, interactions-dynamics emergent from repeated measurements. New Journal of Physics, 19 (1) 013035, 013035. doi: 10.1088/1367-2630/aa551b
Bushev, P. A., Cole, J. H., Sholokhov, D., Kukharchyk, N. and Zych, M. (2016). Single electron relativistic clock interferometer. New Journal of Physics, 18 (9) 093050, 093050. doi: 10.1088/1367-2630/18/9/093050
Pikovski, Igor, Zych, Magdalena, Costa, Fabio and Brukner, Caslav (2016). Reply to 'Questioning universal decoherence due to gravitational time dilation'. Nature Physics, 12 (1), 2-3. doi: 10.1038/nphys3650
Pikovski, Igor, Zych, Magdalena, Costa, Fabio and Brukner, Caslav (2015). Universal decoherence due to gravitational time dilation. Nature Physics, 11 (8), 668-672. doi: 10.1038/nphys3366
Zych, Magdalena, Costa, Fabio, Pikovski, Igor, Ralph, Timothy C. and Brukner, Caslav (2012). General relativistic effects in quantum interference of photons. Classical and Quantum Gravity, 29 (22) 224010, 224010-1-224010-18. doi: 10.1088/0264-9381/29/22/224010
Zych, Magdalena, Costa, Fabio, Pikovski, Igor and Brukner, Caslav (2011). Quantum interferometric visibility as a witness of general relativistic proper time. Nature Communications, 2 (1) 505. doi: 10.1038/ncomms1498
Zych, Magdalena, Costa, Fabio, Kofler, Johannes and Brukner, Caslav (2010). Entanglement between smeared field operators in the Klein-Gordon vacuum. Physical Review D: covering particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology, 81 (12) 125019. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.81.125019
Zielinski, Bartosz and Zych, Magdalena (2006). Generalization of the Margolus-Levitin bound. Physical Review A, 74 (3). doi: 10.1103/PhysRevA.74.034301
Kosinski, Piotr and Zych, Magdalena (2006). Elementary proof of the bound on the speed of quantum evolution. Physical Review A, 73 (2). doi: 10.1103/PhysRevA.73.024303
Conference Papers
Rubino, Giulia, Rozema, Lee A., Massa, Francesco, Araújo, Mateus, Zych, Magdalena, Brukner, Caslav and Walther, Philip (2019). Experimental entanglement of temporal orders. Quantum Information and Measurement 2019, Rome, Italy, 4–6 April 2019. Washington, DC United States: The Optical Society. doi: 10.1364/QIM.2019.S3B.3
Rubino, Giulia, Rozema, Lee A., Massa, Francesco, Araújo, Mateus, Zych, Magdalena, Brukner, Caslav and Walther, Philip (2018). Experimental test of Bell's inequality for temporal orders. CLEO: QELS_Fundamental Science, CLEO_QELS 2018, San Jose, CA, United States, 13–18 May 2018. Washington, DC, United States: OSA - The Optical Society. doi: 10.1364/CLEO_QELS.2018.FTh4G.1
Zych, M., Pikovski, I., Costa, F. and Brukner, C. (2016). General relativistic effects in quantum interference of "clocks". 8th Symposium on Frequency Standards and Metrology 2015, Potsdam, Germany, 12 - 16 October 2015. Bristol, United Kingdom: Institute of Physics Publishing. doi: 10.1088/1742-6596/723/1/012044